Below are the Western New York players who were drafted as high school players, according to baseball-reference.com's database (the search is set for players from New York; many are from NY colleges).

This list includes last time a player was selected (Hoppy in 2009), the last time a player was selected as high as Armstrong (Rehbaum in the second round in 1979), as well as back to the last time a Western New Yorker was taken in the first round out of high school (Matt Winters, who is listed as being from Williamsville, in 1978).

1965 Paul Mankowski, Buffalo HS (listed as such at baseball-reference.com), 31st round by the Twins

1965 Ray Peters, Nichols, 28th round by the Tigers

1965 Gary Shephard, Duffy, 35th round by the Athletics

Note: This year's draft lasts 40 rounds; as you can see, the draft went 70-plus rounds in earlier years.

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Further review of the baseball-reference.com database, this year is unprecedented.

There has never been a draft (which dates back to 1965) in which two Western New York high school players were drafted in the first five rounds.

It appears that there were two -- actually three -- Western New York high schoolers taken among the top 10 rounds in 1970: Kenneth Waiss of Depew (his hometown/high school is actually listed as "DePew," but I didn't dig up anything that said there was an alternate Depew in NYS) was taken in the second round; Bishop Turner's Phil Mankowski was taken in the ninth round; and Cardinal Dougherty's Michael Mooney was taken in the 10th.